The mega-scandal is finalized/ They were passing heroin from Albania to Italy, 27 arrest warrants for the Italian-Albanian gang. The full scheme is highlighted

The Italian authorities issued 27 arrest warrants announced by the Directorate of Anti-Mafia Investigation in the framework of the operation called "Federico II", which in 2016 dismantled two organizations, one Italian and one Albanian, which imported large quantities of heroin from Albania.

The Court of Cassation dismissed as inadmissible the appeals of 24 defendants, making the sentence given to them, on July 1, 2020, by the Leche Court of Appeal, final.

The verdict has been confirmed for: Giuseppino Mero, 56 years old from Cavallino; Mario Accogli, 46, from Scorrano; Ortis Banda, 40 years old, of Albanian origin residing in Maniago (currently untraceable); Antonio Leto, 30, of Caprarica; Nicolò Capone, 27, from Lizzanello; Francesca De Dominicis, 51, from Merine; Francesco De Cagna, 53, from Scorrano; Carmelo De Pascalis, 57, from Cavallino originally from Trepuzzi; Luca Giannone, 44, from Calimera; Alessandro Greco (aka Sandrino) 37, from Lecce; Klaid Hasanaj, 52 years old Albanian, resident in Leçe; Gabriella De Dominicis, 58, from Merine; Alessandro Antonucci, 30, from Lizzanello; Maria Valeria Ingrosso, 41, from Lizzanello; Mario Mandurrino, 32, from Lecce; Angelo Montinaro, 40, from Caprarica di Lecce; Brenda Potenza, 34, of Taviano; Cosimino Maggio, 52 years old, originally from Minervino but living in Reggio Emilia; Umberto Nicoletti, 43 years old from Lecce; Luciano Pagano, 46, from Brindisi; Gianluca Antonio Spiri, 45, from Racale; Pierluigi Pierri, 32, from Torre San Giovanni (in Ugento); Yuri Rosafio, 43, from Brindisi; Emanuele Soliberto, 42 years old from Brindisi.

In total, twenty-one people were the recipients of the detention order signed by the investigating judge Alcide Maritati as part of the investigations launched by the prosecutor of the District Antimafia Directorate (DDA) Guglielmo Cataldi in the wake of another sensational investigation called the Network. .